butterfly photography at Fannie Stebbins, Longmeadow

[Barbara Volkle]

If you take photos of butterflies at Fannie Stebbins Memorial Wildlife Refuge in Longmeadow, this is for you!

The Friends of Fannie Stebbins are working to collect photographs of butterflies in order to create a butterfly checklist.

See below for details.

For additional information, contact Roy Van Driesche vand...@umass.edu

Barbara Volkle

Northborough, MA

bar...@thewold.com

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Fannie Stebbins Butterfly Photography and Checklist

 

Our goal is to encourage butterfly (and later, all insect) photography in the Fannie Stebbins areas belonging to the Conte National Wildlife Refuge or the Town of Longmeadow, along the Connecticut River. Photographers can send in photos of butterflies seen there to Roy Van Driesche, a member of the board of the Fannie Stebbins Friends Group, at vand...@umass.edu. He will then confirm or find an identification as needed.  Photos of new species will be posted to a folder on a Google Drive site, where people can see them (but not add, delete, or download). Photo credits will be associated with each photo on the site. As new species are recognized, they will be noted on the butterfly checklist on the Fannie Stebbins website. Within a year or two, we hope that most of the butterfly species at the site will be documented (There are about 115 species in MA, so we expect that there may be 50 or more in the refuge). In the future, the same site can be used to expand to other groups of insects. Happy photography!